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by iskander 15y ago
I can't speak generally, but when I'm depressed none of the stuff you listed has any appeal. Even much simpler easier things, like sex or sunlight are covered in a terrible veil. The world looks drab and unfriendly. My sensory perception
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by iskander 15y ago
That's what I'm wondering about. The infant mortality rates in pre-industrial times were astoundingly high, but I don't see anything that tries to explicitly account for them. I guess they get rolled in with life expectancy (bringing the me
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by iskander 15y ago
I'm still not completely getting it. Let's say in some year there are a billion people alive and the average life expectancy is 50 years. How are these two pieces of information sufficient to determine how many children were born in that ye
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by iskander 15y ago
They never say how they estimate births_t.
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by iskander 15y ago
>Olofsson has a new idea - or, specifically, a variation on an old one...it was common for a central processor to have a 'math co-processor' chip alongside it - a secondary processor which was designed specifically to carry out floating
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by iskander 15y ago
All the algorithms requiring training can be optimized using stochastic gradient descent-- which is very effective for large data sets (see http://leon.bottou.org/research/stochastic ) Also, here are some additions for the online learning
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by iskander 16y ago
I'm very suspicious of anyone (even Linus) claiming that gcc is slow because of its memory management. The codebase is crufty and convoluted--- it's probably slow for a thousand different reasons. If you refactored into a clean design and r
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by iskander 16y ago
A lot of those exchanges might be disingenuous but they also provide opportunities for short bursts of friendly contact between strangers. If the default were purely transactional then being friendly with a clerk/barista/etc... would be mor
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by iskander 16y ago
Nvidia seems to be betting a bit of its future on the superiority of CUDA over OpenCL for general purpose computing. They share the same model of parallelism model, but Nvidia keeps baking more support for unrestrained C++ into both the har
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by iskander 16y ago
I think you're making overly broad statements that conflate legitimate for-profit education with scams. There are many for-profit schools which operate legitimately and get accreditated by independent and respected institutions like AdvancE
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by iskander 16y ago
1 + til 1000 No stinking distinction between monadic/dyadic usage of array operators!
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by iskander 16y ago
What's lacking from the psychiatric process is any sort of objectivity in the choice of thresholds distinguishing "normal" from "atypical". The criteria for most disorders apply to huge swaths of the population. They're not symptoms of dise
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by iskander 16y ago
The DSM-IV criteria have never impressed me as particularly specific or technical; especially for milder (more common) diagnoses like hypomania, ADHD, bipolar II, etc...
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by iskander 16y ago
Who wrote the first version? I always assumed it was nvidia's version of Brook.
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by iskander 16y ago
Do you know if the dynamic allocation pool is per-SM or in global memory?
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by iskander 16y ago
One thing that completely puzzles me: How does dynamic memory allocation/deallocation in GPU kernels work? Also, will the programmer be able to use virtual functions in CUDA kernels? If so, does the usual thinking about warp divergence appl
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by iskander 16y ago
If the programmer still has to perform manual copies, what's the advantage?
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by iskander 16y ago
Nope, they never suggested it and migrating never occurred to me (I assumed it would cost money).
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by iskander 16y ago
Jason, you're experiencing a PR hiccup; it's not a big deal but it's also not clear that responding to every message in this thread is going to help you. Instead, why not (1) make things right for the OP and everyone else on Howe and (2) pu
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by iskander 16y ago
I had a lifetime account with TextDrive. I don't know if it was official policy at Joyent to neglect the old customers, but I certainly felt like I was being pressured to repurchase services I had already paid for. After several outages, da
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by iskander 16y ago
What other search engines have your friends moved to?
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by iskander 16y ago
The original PageRank hasn't been used for a very long time-- the current system is a lot more sophisticated and blends many different ranking algorithms. I think that Google has done a good job of adapting to both the changes in web conten
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by iskander 16y ago
The more successful charter schools seem to work by molding the cultural assumptions of their students. KIPP, Lighthouse Academies, etc... all seem to work by getting strict discipline into the classroom (eyes up front, everyone quiet, etc.
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by iskander 16y ago
"Chancellor Joel Klein terminated only three teachers for incompetence between 2008 and 2010." This seems dishonest given how hard he tried-- only to be thwarted by a union which always closes ranks. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009
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by iskander 16y ago
Interesting to see how shit and piss diverged after WWII. I wonder what propelled shit's cultural ascent. ( http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=shit,piss&yea... )
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by iskander 16y ago
I know many blind people who use iphones, and they'd love a tool to help them read street signs, cereal boxes, etc... Blind people are patient by necessity, I'm sure there are many who wouldn't mind waving around their phone scanning for te
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by iskander 16y ago
Have you guys yet tried adding grammar models to the translator? Can a full-language bigram model run in real time?
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by iskander 16y ago
>>The person I reported to at EOSUA was Zal Azmi, who was later appointed to Chief Information Officer of the FBI by George W. Bush, and who was chosen to lead portions of the EOUSA VPN project based upon his previous experience wit
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by iskander 16y ago
Is there any way to do "JFK to SFO to ORD to JFK"?
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by iskander 16y ago
I still hitch hike when travelling, and a few of my friends do as well. It can be sometimes difficult to catch rides, so it's best done if you're not in a rush. The people you meet, however, are usually stellar. I got picked up by a grandmo

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